Futures of CCA
New workshops, classrooms, facilities, and community spaces will connect students and disciplines in a vibrant, state-of-the-art environment for art, design, and education.
Rooted in the Bay Area, building toward the future
CCA is the action-oriented art and design school in San Francisco. We've helped shape the Bay Area cultural landscape for nearly 120 years, and our campus expansion brings together more than 30 academic programs and disciplines, adds new student housing and dining, and supports interdisciplinary learning and making like never before. Architecture, design, art, and writing students learn together in the city's most exciting cultural neighborhood, alongside galleries, design studios, and technology companies.
A long-term vision comes to fruition
With the addition of Double Ground, our multi-year plan becomes a reality. Classrooms and studios for every program are now located together in San Francisco, offering even more cross-over opportunities for the talented artists and designers to learn from faculty—and each other. Our students now live, learn, eat, study and relax on our residential campus, which includes two dorms, Founders Hall and Blattner Hall.
CCA's new Double Ground extends our main campus with an additional 82,305 square feet of space. New classrooms and studios with super-flexible interior spaces offer new opportunities for collaboration. What happens when industrial design meets painting? When an architect collaborates with a ceramicist? These are the kinds of collaborations students will encounter. Double Ground will offer students:
- Abundant shared green spaces
- A continuous indoor-outdoor environment
- Interactive maker yards
- Adaptable spaces to create
- New galleries for exhibitions
- A new lecture hall
- More opportunities for interdisciplinary learning
Sustainability at the forefront
Designed by a team led by award-winning architect Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang, the open, transparent design will connect our programs in exciting new ways. Built with sustainable features and amenities, the lower level of Double Ground includes shops, studios, and labs which open into shared maker yards. The upper level features a park-like atmosphere with green space and places to gather, adjacent to CCA's main campus building.
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@cacollegeofartsMarch 18, 2024
See the evolution of an art practice. Part 1 of our graduate fine art thesis exhibition is now on view at @wattisarts until March 28. Open Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 6 pm. Featuring: Molly Barker, Seven Chen, Chrissa Chorvat, Lynse A. Cooper, Carrie Han, Peipei Li, Jason Stern, Gene VanWyk, Willow (陈柳静), Xiaohan Zhou
March 14, 2024
Who was first to move into our new studios? 🦾 🤖 This twelve-foot KUKA robot has made its way home in the soon-to-be relocated Digital Craft Lab (@cca.digital.craft.lab).
The industrial sized machine was generously donated by Kreysler & Associates—one of the foremost firms in material technology—to support future generations of CCA students and faculty as they explore new methods of designing and building human, and even non-human, environments. For architects and designers at CCA, this large KUKA robot opens up a whole new range of possibilities to explore and experiment with new digital fabrication methods and material applications, including 3D printing with both traditional and non-traditional materials.
When our expanded campus opens this fall, the Digital Craft Lab hopes to be both a hub of experimental making and a forum for dialogue across disciplines, a place in which new practices are tested, prototypes are displayed and conversations about imagining and making the future flourish.
March 11, 2024
Spring Fair recap! Shout out to @ccastudentlife_ for bringing the community together to celebrate craft, friendship, sustainability, and Chimera pride ♡ ♺ ❃
March 8, 2024
Currently on view at the Campus Gallery: 💍 360° Ring Show 💍
In this exhibition, the Jewelry & Metal Arts program brings the Bay Area metalsmithing communities together to celebrate the diverse possibilities of finger rings as art and design objects or conceptual ideas.
🏹 Swipe 🏹 to see some of the rings in the exhibition, which closes on March 15.
Gallery hours:
Wednesdays 11am–7pm
Thursday–Friday 11am–4pm
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